Stitt's Ego/Inflexibility

[rgrizfan]

Stitt is not changing anything, he is still trying to do all the things you are listing as changes but as I knew he would he is failing on the big stage. His coaching is pure poppycock plain and simple.

Griz should have hired Coach Hauck back and we would be winning the BSC and making another deep run into the playoffs.

Big game Bob had a problem winning the Big Game!

 

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

What about the running game is predictable?

The tackles for loss?

 

[reinell30]

I did like the screen passes to Nguyen, it at least got him in open.
What about the run game is predictable? Nguyen will get the handoff and run east and west instead of north and south, then turn up field for a 1 yard gain or a loss. Then because that worked so well, we'll do it again.
Any word on Naccarato?
Why can't Calhoun carry the ball 35-40 times if needed?

 

[grizcountry420]

Yeah, Gotta get Calhoun seasoned for next year.Id say 20-25 carries a game. He broke a bunch of tackles. Thats something that none of our our running backs can do, break tackles..

 

[go96griz]

Giving the ball to Nguyen to run up the middle 20 times a game is not flexible...I can't see Stitt's love for Nguyen. He gets one decent run per game. Calhoun needs three times the carries...IMO.
Sending Jones and Henderson up the sidelines every time also isn't working well. When ever one of them breaks off the sideline route and cuts to the middle of the field, they are wide open, hence Jones drop of Simis pass right in the hands....
Flexible...some areas, but not too much...I say he is predictable....yes I know it has to do a lot with the injuries, but....like Blackfootgriz stated; I hope Stitt has something up his sleeve for EW, that Nguyen running thing will kill us.
The only defense getting gassed now is ours...they were on the field an awful lot at ISU.
He has the toned down the offense to Simis level like AZ states. He does try to make things work...the players just have to execute better many of the times.

Time of possession against ISU: 30:07.

And we can't have it both ways: Runs up the middle? Predictable. Runs to the outside? Nguyen can't beat the LB/safety to the edge and our O-linemen can't/don't pull to block. Short of throwing it 80 times a game, not sure what else he's supposed to do. Calhoun can't carry the ball 50 times, and Logwood, Counts & Favors are apparently hurt.

Early in the game we weren't so predictable and at the end of the game when we needed to score we weren't so predictable. We got super conservative in between with a lead trying to hang on for the win. It damn near cost us the game. I would rather be aggressive and make a mistake once in a while rather than go run, run, incomplete pass for a quick 3 and out. Stitt was way too conservative in this game trying to limit Makena's mistakes. I believe he second guessed his calling as well after listening to a post game interview.

 

[Stanley]

I'd really love to hear from you folks who insist that Stitt is inflexible, trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and an egomaniac who insists on playing HIS system at the expense of winning games. I just don't see it that way at all.

He's been extremely flexible in my opinion. He's removed a good portion of the playbook to simplify things for his (now) starting QB. He's gone almost exclusively to a zone-read option type game. I could count on one hand the number of fly sweeps we've seen in the past 3 games. I don't think there was a SINGLE bubble-screen in Saturday's game. More slant passes Saturday than the rest of the season combined. He's completely stopped going for it on 4th down (with ONE exception on Saturday), instead playing the field position game. An offense that was supposed to be about 65/35 pass/run is instead almost exactly 50/50 after 9 games. He's slowed the game down significantly, with less concern for # of plays run, going away from his "exhaust the defense" philosophy....I mean I feel like I could go on and on....yet many on this board continue to insist that he's an inflexible egomaniac who refuses to make any adjustments to his personnel.

Please explain.

You provide more than ample evidence that the coach HAS altered his offensive philosophy. Too bad you'll still receive replies that begin with "Yeah,... but".

:thumb:

 

[Glendivegriz]

A team that is this deep into the season and fails to consistently execute is a reflection on the coaching. A notion that the Griz lack the talent to is laughable. The Griz talent has covered up for some of the inconsistent play. That is why we have been in so many close games. You can't say there is a lack of talent but it also argue they also lack execution. Otherwise, we would have been blown out in almost every game. Unless of course, every team we play is a bunch of untalented bums including NDSU.

 

[MrTitleist]

Giving the ball to Nguyen to run up the middle 20 times a game is not flexible...I can't see Stitt's love for Nguyen. He gets one decent run per game. Calhoun needs three times the carries...IMO.
Sending Jones and Henderson up the sidelines every time also isn't working well. When ever one of them breaks off the sideline route and cuts to the middle of the field, they are wide open, hence Jones drop of Simis pass right in the hands....
Flexible...some areas, but not too much...I say he is predictable....yes I know it has to do a lot with the injuries, but....like Blackfootgriz stated; I hope Stitt has something up his sleeve for EW, that Nguyen running thing will kill us.
The only defense getting gassed now is ours...they were on the field an awful lot at ISU.
He has the toned down the offense to Simis level like AZ states. He does try to make things work...the players just have to execute better many of the times.

Time of possession against ISU: 30:07.

And we can't have it both ways: Runs up the middle? Predictable. Runs to the outside? Nguyen can't beat the LB/safety to the edge and our O-linemen can't/don't pull to block. Short of throwing it 80 times a game, not sure what else he's supposed to do. Calhoun can't carry the ball 50 times, and Logwood, Counts & Favors are apparently hurt.

Early in the game we weren't so predictable and at the end of the game when we needed to score we weren't so predictable. We got super conservative in between with a lead trying to hang on for the win. It damn near cost us the game. I would rather be aggressive and make a mistake once in a while rather than go run, run, incomplete pass for a quick 3 and out. Stitt was way too conservative in this game trying to limit Makena's mistakes. I believe he second guessed his calling as well after listening to a post game interview.

Az, do you see why I was on a Twitter rant on Sunday now?

 

[MrTitleist]

A team that is this deep into the season and fails to consistently execute is a reflection on the coaching. A notion that the Griz lack the talent to is laughable. The Griz talent has covered up for some of the inconsistent play. That is why we have been in so many close games. You can't say there is a lack of talent but it also argue they also lack execution. Otherwise, we would have been blown out in almost every game. Unless of course, every team we play is a bunch of untalented bums including NDSU.

Coaching isn't going to fix our receivers dropping wide open passes across the middle.. that's on the player.

 

[get'em_griz]

A team that is this deep into the season and fails to consistently execute is a reflection on the coaching. A notion that the Griz lack the talent to is laughable. The Griz talent has covered up for some of the inconsistent play. That is why we have been in so many close games. You can't say there is a lack of talent but it also argue they also lack execution. Otherwise, we would have been blown out in almost every game. Unless of course, every team we play is a bunch of untalented bums including NDSU.

Coaching isn't going to fix our receivers dropping wide open passes across the middle.. that's on the player.

Thank you! :clap:

 

[Glendivegriz]

A team that is this deep into the season and fails to consistently execute is a reflection on the coaching. A notion that the Griz lack the talent to is laughable. The Griz talent has covered up for some of the inconsistent play. That is why we have been in so many close games. You can't say there is a lack of talent but it also argue they also lack execution. Otherwise, we would have been blown out in almost every game. Unless of course, every team we play is a bunch of untalented bums including NDSU.

Coaching isn't going to fix our receivers dropping wide open passes across the middle.. that's on the player.

Really? How many times have we blown coverage, over pursued, dropped passes, whiffed or simply missed assignment blocks this year. Granted players have a responsibility but, at this point of the season, repeated mistakes are a reflection of coaching. If a team repeatedly misses fundamental execution of assignments isn't the coaching suppose to correct it?

 

[BWahlberg]

I'd really love to hear from you folks who insist that Stitt is inflexible, trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and an egomaniac who insists on playing HIS system at the expense of winning games. I just don't see it that way at all.

He's been extremely flexible in my opinion. He's removed a good portion of the playbook to simplify things for his (now) starting QB. He's gone almost exclusively to a zone-read option type game. I could count on one hand the number of fly sweeps we've seen in the past 3 games. I don't think there was a SINGLE bubble-screen in Saturday's game. More slant passes Saturday than the rest of the season combined. He's completely stopped going for it on 4th down (with ONE exception on Saturday), instead playing the field position game. An offense that was supposed to be about 65/35 pass/run is instead almost exactly 50/50 after 9 games. He's slowed the game down significantly, with less concern for # of plays run, going away from his "exhaust the defense" philosophy....I mean I feel like I could go on and on....yet many on this board continue to insist that he's an inflexible egomaniac who refuses to make any adjustments to his personnel.

Please explain.

Pflu did exactly this in 2010 as well and received the same criticism as I recall.

Good post AZ

 

[beaverboy]

Purging the roster of tight ends, H- backs and a fullback, significantly reduces your options in both the run game and in the red zone. We never put a man in motion to confuse the defense. We have two all Americans at wide out and can't get them enough touches. Jones and Henderson are working against press coverage with help over the top. Anyone who coached football beyond the sixth grade knows that putting your stud receivers in the slot position takes them off the scrimmage line and allows for more and different routes they can run. Jones was awesome last year in the slot, running crossing patterns and seem routes. We almost never put either one of them in motion to confuse press coverage. The Griz offense right now is the most predicable offense in the Big Sky. Our offensive line has done a decent job considering the defense knows the only thing they have to defend is a very vanilla zone read option. Great job by the Griz defense, the pick six and of course miracle in overtime were special.

 

[brewskis]

Stitt is not changing anything, he is still trying to do all the things you are listing as changes but as I knew he would he is failing on the big stage. His coaching is pure poppycock plain and simple.

Griz should have hired Coach Hauck back and we would be winning the BSC and making another deep run into the playoffs.

Uncle Rico?

 

[grizatwork]

2 words. Offensive line. Everything that the people criticize the coach for goes back to this offensive lines deficiencies. We are young and weak up front and the new offensive takes time for young guys to learn the blocking schemes, especially the zone blocking.

 

[Eriul]

He has adjusted through the season which is good but he definitely stumbled along the way(Weber state 4th down fiasco.) He has grown into his role but I think it was out of necessity as it didn't look good for him after the loss to Weber.

 

[tnt]

2 words. Offensive line. Everything that the people criticize the coach for goes back to this offensive lines deficiencies. We are young and weak up front and the new offensive takes time for young guys to learn the blocking schemes, especially the zone blocking.

That was last years excuse.

 

[big kahuna]

After the last few years, I was thrilled with Stitt's hire, thinking our offense might not be great, at least right away, but at least we wouldn't be so damn predictable. Maybe I was expecting too much -- injuries certainly haven't helped -- but this isn't the offense as billed.

 

[first11]

You go to war with the army you have or so it goes. Circumstances limit options, but Stitt is more conservative than innovative "out of the box" than I would like the past several games. I don't have all the information than he, so benefit of the doubt goes in his favor.

 

[grizatwork]

2 words. Offensive line. Everything that the people criticize the coach for goes back to this offensive lines deficiencies. We are young and weak up front and the new offensive takes time for young guys to learn the blocking schemes, especially the zone blocking.

That was last years excuse.

And we have how many new guys this year starting for the first time? Playing together for the first time? How many years have we complained about the lack of recruiting on the offensive line? 3 coaching staffs in five years?